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Distribution by Scientific Domains

Medical Sciences	42%
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	14%
Humanities and Social Sciences	10%
Psychology	9%
Life Sciences	7%
Chemistry	4%
Physics and Astronomy	3%
Earth and Environmental Science	2%
4 Other Domains	9%

Distribution within Medical Sciences

Neurology	16%
Psychiatry	11%
Allergy & Clinical Immunology	4%
32 Other Subdomains	65%

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Selected Abstracts

Diazepam Terminates Brief but Not Prolonged Seizures in Young, Naïve Rats

EPILEPSIA, Issue 8 2003
Howard P. Goodkin
Summary: Purpose: Ample evidence exists from both clinical and animal studies that the success of benzodiazepine intervention during status epilepticus (SE) in the mature nervous system is inversely related to seizure duration. This relationship has not been well studied in the developing nervous system. Methods: The objective of this study was to investigate the relation of age and success of diazepam (DZP) treatment in the lithium-pilocarpine model of secondarily generalized seizure in the rat by using naïve rats of three age groups, roughly corresponding to the human ages of infancy (P15), adolescence (P20), and adult (P60). Results: In all age groups, the dosage of DZP that stopped the seizures at 5 min was not effective in terminating seizures at 60 min. This decline in efficacy was present as early as 15 min after seizure onset. Conclusions: These findings demonstrate that the inverse relation between the success of benzodiazepine intervention and seizure duration is observed in young as well as in adult rats and provide further evidence that intervention for SE should commence early. [source]

Currents: Books in Brief

GLOBAL BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE, Issue 4 2003
LaRoi Lawton
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Currents: Books in Brief

GLOBAL BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE, Issue 4 2002
LaRoi Lawton
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Currents: Articles in Brief

GLOBAL BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE, Issue 1 2001
Rachael Green
Seven Strategies for Retaining Top Talent Five Ways to Re-recruit Your Employees Building an Effective Global Business Team Lead for Loyalty Do the Right Thing Making Performance Management Relevant Can Pay for Performance Really Work? [source]

Currents: Books in Brief

GLOBAL BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE, Issue 3 2001
LaRoi Lawton
The Roots and Future of Management Theory Profit From the Core: Growth Strategy in an Era of Turbulence 90 Days to Launch: Internet Projects on Time and on Budget The Six Sigma Revolution: How General Electric and Others Turned Process into Profits In Good Company Evolve! Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow Lessons from the Heart of American Business: A Roadmap for Managers in the 21st Century The Passion Plan at Work: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Passion-Driven Organization The Inner Work of Leaders: Leadership as a Habit of Mind Corporate Sin: Leaderless Leadership and Dissonant Workers The HR Scorecard Place to Space: Migrating to Ebusiness Models Building the Integrated Company Protecting Your Company's Intellectual Property: A Practical Guide to Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents, & Trade Secrets Gaming the System: Stop Playing the Organizational Game [source]

ASTM Brief / Proposed Revisions to the ASTM E 2600-08 Vapor Intrusion Standard

GROUND WATER MONITORING & REMEDIATION, Issue 1 2009
Anthony J. Buonicore
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Faster online publication and indexing of "Mutation in Brief" articles via Early View

HUMAN MUTATION, Issue 6 2008
Article first published online: 22 MAY 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

South Africa: Budget in Brief

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 2 2010
Article first published online: 1 APR 2010
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Nigeria: Draft Budget in Brief

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 11 2010
Article first published online: 18 DEC 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

ROADS AND RAILWAYS: In Brief

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 6 2009
Article first published online: 30 JUL 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

South Africa: Budget in Brief

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 1 2009
Article first published online: 9 MAR 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Brief scheduled phone support from a clinician to enhance computer-aided self-help for obsessive-compulsive disorder: Randomized controlled trial

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 12 2005
Mark Kenwright
Treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients from around the United Kingdom who employed computer-guided self-help by using BTSteps over 17 weeks were randomized to have brief live phone support from a clinician either (1) in nine Scheduled clinician-initiated calls or (2) only in calls Requested by the patient (n = 22 per condition). Call content and mean duration were similar across conditions. Scheduled -support patients dropped out significantly less often, did more homework of self-exposure and self-imposed ritual prevention (95% vs. 57%), and showed more improvement in OCD symptoms and disability. Mean total support time per patient over 17 weeks was 76 minutes for Scheduled and 16 minutes for Requested patients. Giving brief support proactively by phone enhanced OCD patients' completion of and improvement with computer-aided self-help. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 61: 1499,1508, 2005. [source]

Sequence and priming in 15 month-olds' reactions to brief arm restraint: evidence for a hierarchy of anger responses

AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, Issue 6 2007
Michael Potegal
Abstract Brief, gentle arm restraint is widely used in experimental studies of children's anger, but the pattern of responses generated by such restraint has been incompletely described. We now describe a hierarchy of responses within trials as well as an escalation across trials that have both methodological and theoretical significance. Mothers of 87 15-month olds prevented them from playing with a toy by restraining their arms on two consecutive 30,sec trials. Physical struggling was the first and most frequent response; children who struggled were significantly more likely to vocalize, and those who vocalized were significantly more likely to show facial expressions of anger. The children's responses became more probable, rapid, and intense during Trial 2 restraint. Overall, the hierarchy was orderly enough to meet criteria for Guttman scalability. The particular sequence observed suggests situational, as opposed to bio-energetic, ordering of responses. Methodologically, the two trial paradigm is a simple, ecologically valid model for studying anger escalation that parallels the "attack priming" of aggression in other species. The magnitude and persistence of anger priming may provide novel measures of anger regulation. Theoretically, the existence of an orderly response hierarchy is consistent with previous observations suggesting that, within a situational context, the sequential appearance of specific behaviors may indicate progressive increases in anger intensity. Aggr. Behav. 33:508,518, 2007. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]

Comparative Policy Brief: Status of Intellectual Disabilities in the Republic of Zambia

JOURNAL OF POLICY AND PRACTICE IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, Issue 2 2008
James Mung'omba
Abstract, In the Republic of Zambia, an estimated 256,000 persons have some form of disability, and of these, 5.4% have intellectual disabilities. Even now, traditional beliefs about the etiology of intellectual disabilities persist and considerable stigma is attached to the presence of persons with intellectual disabilities who are often excluded from community life. Recently, antidiscrimination legislation has been enacted and there is a policy related to pupils with special educational needs. Although a range of Zambian and international nongovernmental organizations and church groups have developed services for children and their families, their impact is impeded by widespread poverty. Adults remain vulnerable, with no entitlement to social welfare benefits and very limited access either to government-led trust funds for persons with disabilities or to employment. The most striking issue is poverty (Zambia is one of the world's poorest nations) and an absence of even basic support for people with intellectual disabilities outside of families. Other key issues include a lack of useful data, no specific policy related to persons with intellectual disabilities, and limited progress in achieving education for all. [source]

Resolving the Anti-Antievolutionism Dilemma: A Brief for Relational Evolutionary Thinking in Anthropology

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2009
Emily Schultz
ABSTRACT Anthropologists often disagree about whether, or in what ways, anthropology is "evolutionary." Anthropologists defending accounts of primate or human biological development and evolution that conflict with mainstream "neo-Darwinian" thinking have sometimes been called "creationists" or have been accused of being "antiscience." As a result, many cultural anthropologists struggle with an "anti-antievolutionism" dilemma: they are more comfortable opposing the critics of evolutionary biology, broadly conceived, than they are defending mainstream evolutionary views with which they disagree. Evolutionary theory, however, comes in many forms. Relational evolutionary approaches such as Developmental Systems Theory, niche construction, and autopoiesis,natural drift augment mainstream evolutionary thinking in ways that should prove attractive to many anthropologists who wish to affirm evolution but are dissatisfied with current "neo-Darwinian" hegemony. Relational evolutionary thinking moves evolutionary discussion away from reductionism and sterile nature,nurture debates and promises to enable fresh approaches to a range of problems across the subfields of anthropology. [Keywords: evolutionary anthropology, Developmental Systems Theory, niche construction, autopoeisis, natural drift] [source]

Building Relationships with the Media: A Brief Working Guide for Community College Leaders

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES, Issue 110 2000
Neal A. Raisman
The media can help colleges enhance their public image and enrollment when a few proven rules and principles are employed by college administrators and other members of the college community. [source]

Immediate Benefits of a Brief 10-Minute Exercise Protocol in a Chronic Pain Population: A Pilot Study

PAIN MEDICINE, Issue 4 2010
Amy Burleson Sullivan PsyD
Abstract Objective., Determining the acute effects of a brief, 10-minute exercise protocol on pain, mood, and perceived exertion. Patients., Twenty-eight subjects who were admitted to the Cleveland Clinic Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program (CPRP), and who were capable of completing an experimenter-designed and controlled treadmill protocol were included in this pilot study. Methods., A within-group repeated measure analysis was used to compare 28 subjects admitted to the Cleveland Clinic CPRP. Measures of heart rate were obtained using the Nellcor Oximax, pulse oximeter; measures of mood and pain were obtained using a 0,10 Likert scale, and perceived exertion measured with a visual analog scale. Each measure was taken pre- and post-10-minute exercise protocol. Results., The brief exercise protocol was associated with self-report of immediate antidepressant and anxiolytic effects. Additionally, after the 3-week CPRP, self-reports in perceived exertion decreased. Brief exercise was not found to have an acute analgesic effect. Conclusion., This preliminary research revealed a temporal association of improvement in self-rated anxiety and depression, following a brief exercise protocol, and over the course of 3 weeks leads to decreased perceived exertion. Therefore suggesting that brief exercise is a safe, nonpharmacologic strategy for immediately improving mood, and has further implications for mortality risk. [source]

Ethics of the new biology and genetic medicine (molecular ethics): Brief (re)view from the USA

PATHOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, Issue 9 2002
Fred G. Silva
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Buchbesprechung: No Time to be Brief.

PHYSIK IN UNSERER ZEIT (PHIUZ), Issue 4 2003
A Scientific Biography of Wolfgang Pauli von C. P. Enz
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Photomorphogenic regulation of increases in UV-absorbing pigments in cucumber (Cucumis sativus) and Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings induced by different UV-B and UV-C wavebands

PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM, Issue 1 2010
James R. Shinkle
Brief (1,100 min) irradiations with three different ultraviolet-B (UV-B) and ultraviolet-C (UV-C) wave bands induced increases the UV-absorbing pigments extracted from cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) and Arabidopsis. Spectra of methanol/1% HCl extracts from cucumber hypocotyl segments spanning 250,400 nm showed a single defined peak at 317 nm. When seedlings were irradiated with 5 kJ m,2 UV-B radiation containing proportionally greater short wavelength UV-B (37% of UV-B between 280 and 300 nm; full-spectrum UV-B, FS-UVB), tissue extracts taken 24 h after irradiation showed an overall increase in absorption (91% increase at 317 nm) with a second defined peak at 263 nm. Irradiation with 1.1 kJ m,2 UV-C (254 nm) caused similar changes. In contrast, seedlings irradiated with 5 kJ m,2 UV-B including only wavelengths longer than 290 nm (8% of UV-B between 290 and 300 nm; long-wavelength UV-B, LW-UVB) resulted only in a general increase in absorption (80% at 317 nm). The increases in absorption were detectable as early as 3 h after irradiation with FS-UVB and UV-C, while the response to LW-UVB was first detectable at 6 h after irradiation. In extracts from whole Arabidopsis seedlings, 5 kJ m,2 LW-UVB caused only a 20% increase in total absorption. Irradiation with 5 kJ m,2 FS-UVB caused the appearance of a new peak at 270 nm and a concomitant increase in absorption of 72%. The induction of this new peak was observed in seedlings carrying the fah1 mutation which disrupts the pathway for sinapate synthesis. The results are in agreement with previously published data on stem elongation indicating the existence of two response pathways within the UV-B, one operating at longer wavelengths (>300 nm) and another specifically activated by short wavelength UV-B (<300 nm and also by UV-C). [source]

Ethik Als Angewandte Ekklesiologie: Der Brief an Die Epheser , Edited by Michael Wolter

RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 1 2007
Thomas Witulski
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

The Male Sexual Quotient: A Brief, Self-Administered Questionnaire to Assess Male Sexual Satisfaction

THE JOURNAL OF SEXUAL MEDICINE, Issue 2 2007
Carmita H.N. Abdo MD
ABSTRACT Introduction., Sexual satisfaction is an important aspect of overall life satisfaction. The Male Sexual Quotient (MSQ) was designed to provide a versatile, user-friendly instrument to measure various aspects of male sexual function and satisfaction. Aim., Assess responses to the MSQ in men with sexual dysfunction (SD). Methods., Items for inclusion in the MSQ were developed through interviewing 612 randomly recruited men in São Paulo, Brazil, about factors considered to influence sexual quality of life. Validation of the MSQ was conducted in two phases in men with and without SD. Main Outcome Measure., The correlation between patients' total MSQ score and scores on the Sexual Health Inventory for Men (SHIM). Results., The resulting MSQ questionnaire contains 10 items that address sexual function and satisfaction and is scored on a 100-point scale, with higher scores indicating greater sexual function and satisfaction with such function. Patients' scores on the MSQ were positively correlated with scores on the SHIM (r = 0.86; P < 0.0001). Scores on MSQ item 8, which assesses ejaculatory control, indicated that 46% of patients may have premature ejaculation (PE). The mean time for patients to complete the MSQ was 11 minutes. Conclusions., The MSQ is a brief, comprehensive, and easily self-administered tool designed to help men identify aspects of their sexual experience that could be improved through partner dialogue, physician consultation, and appropriate treatment. MSQ scores correlated well with SHIM scores, and scores were inversely related to the severity of erectile dysfunction or PE and other male SDs. These preliminary findings suggest that the MSQ possesses good convergent validity. Nearly half of men reported problems with ejaculatory control, indicating an association between PE and other SD. Further validation of the MSQ in a double-blind trial is needed. The MSQ may aid in decision making for the treatment of SD. Abdo CHN. The Male Sexual Quotient: A brief, self-administered questionnaire to assess male sexual satisfaction. J Sex Med 2007;4:382,389. [source]